On a planet called Earth, the terrifying possibility of a massive war was lingering. The constant threat of nuclear weapons frightened humanity to the brink of chaos and insanity. But Earth wasn’t the only one. The colonies stationed on the moon were also stopped dead cold by this freezing ‘almost’ war. The Moon by this time had been half colonized and has only just begun to be terraformed. Lunar warfare was, too, on the rise.
The world was ready.
If a nuclear missile was launched, it’d trigger a chain reaction, millions of rockets, enough to destroy the Earth 5 times over. What would this result to? Permalink
Canada, after receiving information about the sun’s closest neighbor, Alpha Centuari, from the Alpha Beta 9, the very first successful satellite to orbit another star other than our own (2179), secretly planned a manned mission to Beta-C. Beta-C is a small terrestrial planet orbiting Centauri-B, the smaller of the two stars in the A.C. System. While the rest of the world stubbornly pointed their missiles at each other, the Mercury Descender 6 was launched on February 24, 2181. The M-D.6 used a technique called ‘Planet Hopping’ (Using centripetal force from the closest planet to get catapulted to the next, and so on.) to get from the Earth to Pluto, then it’s Nuclear Pulse Fusion rockets kicked in and blasted it to the destination.
A year after the launch, Canada received a transmission. “We-Have-Landed!” Permalink
Prior to the global announcement of Canada’s manned mission to Alpha-Centauri, the Second Cold War (CW2 from Entry #1) forced nations to either get advanced enough to defend themselves or get conquered by another nation. But afterwards, many nations suddenly realize that constant fighting was no longer the answer and some even flooded over to the U.N. (United Nations). The race was on to get ahead in Aerospace Science, thus the period of time was named the ‘Second Space Race’, or SR2.
But of course the U.N. was the leader in Aerospace Science at the time, and the remaining nations -wanting to take the advantage of being in the U.N.- begged the U.N. to let them in. The U.N. continued to grow, and when it reached 86% they renamed themselves to the United Nations of Earth!
To top Canada’s AC Mission, some of the larger nations of the U.N.E. planned to create a science fleet designed to colonize Beta-C and send back information. This fleet would be named The 1st Science Fleet of the U.N.E. But, unfortunately, when the fleet was within Alpha-Centuari’s orbit it lost contact with Earth. Their last transmission said, “An unknown ship has been detected!”…… Permalink
Place: Western Spiral-Arm of the Galaxy
Not knowing what to do, the Alliance ignored the loss of their Science Fleet and ruled it an accident. Eventually, life went back to normal and the Alliance reached a golden age of peace and prosperity. Colonization was booming and the U.N.E. was expanding every day. Several sentient species were discovered and befriended. (May I remind you that all of this happened within 50 SEYs, or Standard Earth Years?) For a brief blink in time, life in the galaxy looked good for Humanity and its people. That was, of course, until that terrible day that started it all. The day of Jan. 4th, 2239… Permalink
Place: Really-New York, Sirius IV
Time: Jan. 4th, 2239
It had been awhile since another species of sentient aliens had joined the Alliance. Recently, newly discovered species claimed to be part of a superior ‘coalition’. Nothing was thought of this ‘all powerful coalition’ but the worst luck in all of Earth’s history was about to hit.
It was an ordinary day on Really-New York, Sirius IV. (RNY, for short) Everything seemed fine until a large vessel of some sort randomly appeared in space, as if it had ‘warped’. It was much larger than anything previously recorded. Its speed was much greater than any of the Alliance’s ships. A transmission, apparently from the ship, was received at the outpost in RNY saying, “We are the Coalition of Planets. You have colonized on our territory. In the name of the Emperor, surrender your allegiance!” The people stationed on that outpost knew that, in this situation, they should’ve let Executive Leaders handle this, but they also knew what the decision would be. “We’ll keep our allegiance, thank you.” they replied.
The outpost was gone; destroyed within hours. A final, four-word message would be heard all around Sirius IV and all of the U.N.E. “We are at war.” Permalink
Earth and the U.N.E. have survived several beatings from the C.O.P. A massive project was brought into existence that would ensure that even if all but Earth was captured, the U.N.E. would put up one last fight. The project would later be named the Planetary Defense System or PDR for short. The PDR consists of a giant orbital ring surrounding Earth filled with state of the art weaponry and whatever else might help defend Earth. Permalink